Day School Gets $4 Million Loan

CELEBRATIONS - Milestones

December 17, 1997

BOCA RATON — A Jewish day school that rents space from a Conservative synagogue in Boca Raton has secured a $4 million loan to build a permanent building.

Leaders of Hillel Day School will use the money from 1st United Bank to move the school from B'nai Torah Congregation, on Southwest 18th Street, to 15 acres near the Siemens Jewish Campus, behind West Boca Medical Center.

The campus is home to the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County, the Adolph & Rose Levis Jewish Community Center, Donna Klein Jewish Academy, Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service and other agencies that serve Jewish families in Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Highland Beach, and surrounding unincorporated communities.

When completed, the new Hillel Day School will serve kindergartners through eighth-graders, said Rabbi Tsvi Kilstein, Hillel's headmaster.

``As the world gets ready for the 21st century,'' he said, ``Hillel is getting ready to meet the educational challenges of that century in a new building with a renewed sense of spirit.''

And the bank is glad to be part of that renewed spirit, said Ward Kellogg, vice president and chief credit officer.

``From the first moment we heard about the project,'' Kellogg said, ``we were proud to be financing something so important to the community _ especially for the children.''